Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Ellen McIlwaine The Letter Fear Itself
Ursa Major* In My Darkest Hour ST
Oscar* McLollie Love Will Get You ST
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Green Power Love Serenade
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Joe* Glazer Solidarity Forever A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Black Brows Dark Brown Eyes Ukrainian Pops
David Amram Greasy Spoon Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Cal* Bostic That's All Introducing...
Country Mcdonald Joe* Forward War War War
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) (There's a Lot of Different Kind of) People in the World Love Serenade
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine We the People We the People
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Respect You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Doc Holiday* Canadian State of Mind Canadian State of Mind b/w Canadian State of Mind
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Wedding March Ukrainian Pops
Jonathan Edwards Let the Rough Side Drag Sailboat
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Ernie* Smith Wash Wash (That Lucky Old Sun) Skareggae
Zambonis* To Bleed Black and Gold To Bleed Black and Gold
Ernie* Smith Freedom Street Skareggae
Buddy Knox I Ain't Sharin' Sharon ST (mono)
Dils* Sound of the Rain (Le sond de la pluit) Made In Canada
Exponians The Look of Love Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Shake a Hand Amist the Black Eyes
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Take Twenty Love Serenade
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Zambonis* Haunted Hockey Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine Regretting Blues Everybody Needs It
Ernie* Smith To Behold Jah To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine Born Under a Bad Sign Fear Itself
Albert Jones* Hussle Disco The Facts of Life
Jack Holland The Eyes of a Dreamer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Jack Holland The Time Or the Place The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Wade in the Water Honky Tonk Angel
Alpha Centauri Earth in Motion ST
Ellen McIlwaine Pinebo (My Story) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Matt Lucas* The Last Song Matt Gets Blue
Ernie* Smith Who I Am To Behold Jah
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* King of the Cops I'm a Song
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Show and Tell Love Serenade
Buddy Knox C'mon Baby ST (mono)
Ellen McIlwaine Come Sit Down and Tell Me Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Priscilla* Rollins Sad Movies Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Buddy Knox Long Lonely Nights ST (mono)
Hopeton* Lewis Story Book Children Think Positive // Story Book Children
Zambonis* Live Intro - Hockey Monkey To Bleed Black and Gold
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Priscilla* Rollins Cry Cry Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Ode to Billy Joe Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Buddy Knox Party Doll ST
Aarons And Ackley* Annalee ST
Ellen McIlwaine Say a Single Word Everybody Needs It
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Buddy Knox Storm Clouds ST (mono)
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Jonathan Edwards How About You Sailboat
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Street Girl Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Priscilla* Rollins Magic Moment Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song (Reprise) I'm a Song
Joe* Glazer New Democratic Party Train A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Matt Lucas* The Nuthouse Matt Gets Blue
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Honky Tonk Woman Love Serenade
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* I Will Go Into The Distant Mountains Ukrainian Pops
Matt Lucas* The Peepin' Tom Matt Gets Blue
Cal* Bostic Longing for You (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Ursa Major* Sinner ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Unleash the Horses Boys Ukrainian Pops
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Can't Eat Shirley Lewis Show Band
Ursa Major* Lay Me Down ST
Ursa Major* Stage Door Queen ST
Ellen McIlwaine Danger Zone Everybody Needs It
Aarons And Ackley* N.F.S. You And I
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Needs It Everybody Needs It
Jonathan Edwards Carolina Caroline Sailboat
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Hard Hard Times Shirley Lewis Show Band
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Albert Jones* I Feel So Good The Facts of Life
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
David Amram Old Man and the Children Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Nelson* Riddle The Okanagan British Columbia Suite
Buddy Knox I'm In Love With You ST
Albert Jones* You Just Can't Turn Me Loose The Facts of Life
Ernie* Smith Top Rankin Skankin To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
David Amram The Mountain Song Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* - Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

Kyiv, 🇺🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

The Revelaires (3)

The Revelaires (2)

The Revelaires

The Revelaires You're So Wrong (1)

The Revelaires Great Pre (1)

Matt Gets Blue

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

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